Darrick Hamilton, Associate Professor of Economics and Urban Policy at Milano – The New School for International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy, was recently announced as nominated to be president-elect of the National Economic Association (NEA). Duties as such include organizing the NEA’s annual conference for 2016, and leading several committees. Hamilton would subsequently be scheduled as president, and would deliver the keynote presidential address at the 2017 annual conference.
The National Economic Association (NEA) was founded in 1969 as the Caucus of Black Economists to promote the professional lives of minorities within the profession. In addition to continuing its founding mission, the organization is particularly interested in producing and distributing knowledge of economic issues that are of exceptional interest to promoting economic growth among native and immigrant African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color.